Category: Medicine

  • Neuroscience podcast 6: pain pathways

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    The 6th podcast from Phil & me (sorry, Dr Phil Newton & Dr Samuel Webster) is up, live, available and downloadable. We talk about how sensations of pain are relayed to the brain and a little about how the brain perceives pain, phantom limb pain and referred pain. Phil also tells me how the brain…

  • A Map of the Cranial Nerves

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    What do you think of this? I’ve been putting this together, probably, for the last couple of years. I was driven by the aim to visually represent, in a format that most of us recognise and can navigate easily, what the cranial nerves link to. That is, which structures send and receive information via neurones…

  • New Podcasts

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    I’ve been a bit busy recently, but the first draft of the Embryology at a Glance textbook is written (hurrah!) & there are a couple of new podcasts that I’ve put out.

  • Swansea-Gambia Link Project 2010

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    A group of students are out in the Gambia looking at health in the context of international development. If you want to find out more and keep up with what they’re doing, take a look at their blog: swanseagambialinkproject2010.blogspot.com

  • Neuroscience podcast 4: autonomic nervous system

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    Phil & I recorded another neuroscience podcast. Number 4 covers the autonomic nervous system and we talk about the anatomy, the wiring of the neurones, and the neurotransmitters involved. I might have to listen to that neurotransmitters section a few more times. MP3: Neuroscience podcast 4 – autonomic nervous system. iTunes: Neuroscience podcast 4 –…

  • Anatomy & embryology podcast 24

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    OK, I finally finished the latest podcast in which Rhiannon and I talk about what we think are the important aspects of the anatomy of the lower limb. This is the first part of two, and is 45 minutes long. We talk about the bones of the foot and ankle, the knee, the sciatic nerve,…

  • Anatomy: the lumbosacral plexus and the lower limb

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    On Monday we started looking at the structure of the hip, the muscles there and the nerves involved in motor and sensory innervation. In my station we talked about the lumbosacral plexus. Lots of nerves! A nerve plexus is merely a lot of separate nerves (it’s probably best to think of long, individual nerve cells)…

  • Neuroscience podcast no. 3 – Neurotransmitters

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    Phil tried really hard to teach me about neurotransmitters in our most recent podcast. We talked about how they work and went through a list of the key neurotransmitters and gave an overview of what they do. Many of them will be talked about in more detail in future podcasts! My poor brain. MP3: Neuroscience…

  • 46 days post-fracture

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    Messy, huh?

  • Neuroscience podcast no. 2

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    Another neuroscience podcast is out: Phil tells me why my weight is fairly stable, what happens in my brain when I get hungry and what changes when I have eaten. We talk about the adipostat, leptin, ghrelin and obesity, why we choose particular foods and how dopamine, opioids and (probably) serotonin are involved. MP3: Neuroscience…